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Genetic mapping of Cacopsylla pyri resistance in an interspecific pear (Pyrus spp.) population
Cacopsylla pyri (pear psylla) is one of the most serious pests of pear (Pyrus spp.) in Europe. It can cause high yield losses, and its control has become difficult since it has developed resistance to a wide range of pesticides. Pear breeders are developing new cultivars resistant to pear psyllids, and Asian species, such as Pyrus ussuriensis and Pyrus × bretschneideri, are good sources of resistance. Antixenosis and antibiosis resistance to psylla were both identified in pear; they may differ in the biological mechanism and probably have different genetic backgrounds. We crossed interspecific P. × bretschneideri × Pyrus communis hybrid PEAR3, resistant to pear psylla, with the susceptible European pear cultivar 'Moonglow' to obtain an F1 population for the genetic mapping of the resistance. Quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis was carried out for antibiosis by measuring the number of surviving nymphs and the nymphal development, using a novel phenotyping protocol and a saturated genetic map made of single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and microsatellite (simple sequence repeats (SSR)) markers. A stable QTL was detected on linkage group (LG) 8 of PEAR3 (R 2 = 17.2–39.1 %). In addition, QTLs were detected on LG5 (R 2 = 10.8 %) of PEAR3 and on LG15 of 'Moonglow' (R 2 = 13.7 %)
Montanari, S.; Guérif, P.; Ravon, E.; Denancé, C.; Muranty, H.; Velasco, R.; Chagné, D.; Bus, V.G..M.; Robert, P.; Perchepied, L.; Durel, C. (2015). Genetic mapping of Cacopsylla pyri resistance in an interspecific pear (Pyrus spp.) population. TREE GENETICS & GENOMES, 11 (74): 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s11295-015-0901-y handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/33957
Citation: Montanari, S.; Guérif, P.; Ravon, E.; Denancé, C.; Muranty, H.; Velasco, R.; Chagné, D.; Bus, V.G..M.; Robert, P.; Perchepied, L.; Durel, C. (2015). Genetic mapping of Cacopsylla pyri resistance in an interspecific pear (Pyrus spp.) population. TREE GENETICS & GENOMES, 11 (74): 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s11295-015-0901-y handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/33957
Montanari, Sara
Guérif, P.
Ravon, E.
Denancé, C.
Muranty, H.
Velasco, Riccardo
Chagné, D.
Bus, V. G. . M.
Robert, P.
Perchepied, L.
Durel, C.
Organization unit: Genomics and Biology of Fruit Crops Department # CRI_2011-JAN2016
Authors: Montanari, S.; Guérif, P.; Ravon, E.; Denancé, C.; Muranty, H.; Velasco, R.; Chagné, D.; Bus, V.G..M.; Robert, P.; Perchepied, L.; Durel, C.
Title: Genetic mapping of Cacopsylla pyri resistance in an interspecific pear (Pyrus spp.) population
Journal: TREE GENETICS & GENOMES
Scientific Disciplinary Area: Settore AGR/07 - Genetica Agraria
Keywords ENG: Pyrus × bretschneideri
Psylla
Antixenosis
Antibiosis
QTL mapping
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11295-015-0901-y
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Jungheinrich Opens LEED Certified Production Plant in China
By Editor on 13/08/2013
On August 8 Jungheinrich opened a new plant in Qingpu (Shanghai), replacing the previous production plant located in the immediate vicinity. The new plant was built according to the latest environmental standards, with a production capacity of over 10,000 industrial trucks per year. The trucks will be locally developed and produced adhering to European standards and incorporating Jungheinrich quality.
"At Qingpu we are building modern, energy-efficient Jungheinrich forklifts based on European quality standards. The new plant provides us with an opportunity to produce additional truck types and larger quantities in line with market demand," declared Hans-Georg Frey, Chairman of the Board of Management of the Jungheinrich group at the plant opening ceremony in Qingpu on August 8.
The new plant, which was built within the span of just one year, will be used for the development and production of pedestrian-controlled trucks as well as counterbalanced and reach trucks for the entire Asia-Pacific region. To pave the way for the project Jungheinrich purchased 60,000 square metres of land in the industrial district of Qingpu. The new production area measures 36,000 square metres, while the office building boasts some 4,000 square metres of floor space spread over three storeys. The new production facility replaces the previous plant, erected in 2006, which had reached the limits of its capacity.
The design of the new production facility was based on a sophisticated energy concept that uses primarily water for the air conditioning in summer, resulting in a 90 percent reduction in the amount of coolant needed compared to similar structures as well as a consequent substantial drop in the quantity of greenhouse gases produced. In the winter the plant is heated using geothermal energy, with a system that feeds any unused energy back into the ground. The plant is also equipped with an energy-conserving system which supplies purified, filtered air to each office, while reducing air humidity throughout the building. "Those are just a few of the numerous ecological factors which flowed into the design of our new plant," reported Reinhild Kühne, Managing Director of Jungheinrich Lift Truck Manufacturing (Shanghai) Co. Ltd and responsible for the project implementation.
Based on all this the new Jungheinrich plant was certified at its opening with the LEED Silver certificate, an ecological rating system for buildings developed by the U.S. Green Building Council. This system defines a series of environmental building standards, including resource conservation and ecologically sustainable operation. According to Kühne: "We are delighted to have received this certification for one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the entire Shanghai region, allowing us to put a 'healthy' building at the disposal of our highly motivated staff. This is enhanced by the building layout, which was based on the design principles of Feng Shui."
Jungheinrich ranks among the world's leading companies in the material handling equipment, warehousing and material flow engineering sectors. The company is an intralogistics service and solution provider with manufacturing operations, which offers its customers a comprehensive range of forklift trucks, shelving systems, services and advice. Jungheinrich shares are traded on all German stock exchanges.
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Sehenswürdigkeiten

Die Philippine Ostrich & Crocodile Farm ist die erste Straußenfarm der Philippinen. Auf der Farm werden mehrere Hundert Krokodile und Strauße gehalten. Die Farm ist der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich.

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Yasuhito Takeuchi, the maker of the award winning project Forever Cherry Blossoms by Yasuhito Takeuchi demonstrates, People who were at the mercy of the times. It resembles cherry blossoms and petals blooming and scattering. Even if it fails, it grows with effort. Each person has strength weakness. Collaborate with surrounding people and overcome. It is often compared to cherry in Japan. Pale human life, pale cherry blossoms color. Human beings and cherry blossoms combined to express the rise and fall of living things alive..


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Adult residents (19 and over) who possess a library membership card and wish to earn their high school diplomas. Minors should pursue their high school education through existing school district resources. How will people be selected for the program? Applicants will be required to successfully pass an online self-assessment and prerequisite course to participate in the program. Enrollment will be limited and the demand is expected to be high.
However, if a student has passed any of the four GED® subject areas at a Performance Level 2 or above (145+), they can request that their GED® transcript be evaluated and applied toward their accredited high school diploma through Career Online High School.
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We encourage you to make the decision that is right for you. Research all of your options so that you can make an informed decision. Also, you may want speak with your local library, friends, family, and your employer about the opportunities available to you.
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Cocktail flavors in cookies: cosmopolitans, margaritas and white Russians.
Basting of turkey with glazes, rubs and crusts for ease and flavor.
The ascension of brunch as a family meal, featuring dishes such as cranberry-sage crab cakes.
New twists to traditional seasonal dishes.
Bay leaf and pear. Demo recipes: bay leaf and honey-glazed turkey with pear chutney; double pear upside-down cake with bay leaf glaze; and roasted turkey with smoked paprika.
Roasted cinnamon and bacon. Demo recipes: apple wood bacon and eggs breakfast flatbread; cinnamon-apple bacon brunch bake; and roasted cinnamon and bacon turkey gravy.
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This woman had done everything that she could possibly do to be healed. She went to every doctor and tried every home remedy; she had bankrupted herself in search of a solution. All of this effort was to no avail, this wasn't something that she could do by herself. She was absolutely desperate.
Other translations say she touched the hem of Jesus' garment. She got down on the ground to do this. She was in the dust, in the middle of a huge crowd, she was probably stepped on and run into, but she didn't care; she was getting her miracle. She knew that there was nothing that she could do in her own strength to be healed, and her dream didn't come until she lowered herself and reached up to grab the fringe of his robe.
I have a tendency to focus on fixing problems on my own and coming up with solutions that I can do myself. Lately, I've been focused on dreams and goals that I have for myself instead of bringing those problems to the feet of Jesus and getting the solutions from him. This woman's dream wasn't made a reality until she was at the feet of Jesus. My dreams, my goals, my ambitions won't happen without my daily, hourly reliance on God. I don't want to waste 12 years of my life trying to force my dreams to happen, when God is the one with the answers. I'm not advocating inactivity, I'm merely stating that we need to live in a mindset of humility and reliance on God for the answers instead of trying to manufacture our own.
I'm committed to spending time on my knees in the dust before the Lord. What about you? What dreams are you waiting on? I encourage you to humble yourself before Him who knows every solution, every answer and live at the feet of Jesus.


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Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition
Complex Land Markets; Urban Planning Strategies
Department For International Development (DFID)
Counterpart Organisations
IPE Triple Line; Development Planning Unit, University College London; National experts in Uganda and Somaliland
Uganda and Somaliland
IHS Contact
Alexander Jachnow
Complex Land Markets
Emergent, uncontrolled land markets frequently support rapid, unplanned expansion in which substantial slum areas are typified by scarcity of urban services, which in turn impacts on economic productivity and human development. Research has focused variously on the impact of formal and informal institutions on those processes, but little research has focused on how those institutions interact and overlap. The dynamic and rapid nature of urbanization in East African cities, coupled with a scarcity of planning resources, limits the value of formal institutions in steering urban change and expansion, thus highlighting the importance of a holistic understanding of both formal and informal institutions. These interrelated institutional arrangements are understood as 'complex land markets' (CLM). Our focus on land markets and their impacts underpins the essential concept of the research being about the City as a System.
"Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition" is a research project investigating urban transition in Kampala and Arua in Uganda and Hargeisa and Berbera in Somaliland. The project seeks to understand the dynamics of urbanisation in East African cities on their own terms, rather than employing the perspectives of 'western' urban planning.
Objectives of the research:
Understand and explain the complex land markets in each of the selected cities, looking at all formal and informal actors;
Provide policy recommendations with regard to land governance and equitable and sustainable urban development; and
Develop a spatial justice index as a policy tool for intra- and intercountry comparison.
"Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition" is funded by the East Africa Research Fund (EARF), which is a funding facility of the Department for International Development (DFID). This two year project is implemented in collaboration with IPE Triple Line and Development Planning Unit, located in London and with nation experts in Uganda and Somaliland. The consortium aims to deliver innovative findings and practical recommendations to overcome the constraints of development in different sectors, especially those related to spatial development. Examples of output that will be developed by the end of the project include city level spatial assessments,
IHS' Role
IHS is the Principal Investigator of the two-year project, working with the co-investigators and in country coordinating experts. Responsibilities for the project also include:
Organisation of local contracts, work plan and inception of project
Co-ordination of inception workshops and report
Development and management of Household Surveys in all four cities
Development of the core outcomes of the assessment including in-city analyses, a Spatial Justice Index and policy recommendations for political and administrative practices.
News and updates about the project
Public Report: Complex Land Markets in Uganda and Somaliland
In this research project, we investigated complex land markets and urban transition in four East African cities in two countries - Kampala and Arua in Uganda…
Research output: how Complex Land Markets influence spatial justice
The research project Spatial Inequality in Times of Urban Transition has been executed by a consortium of IHS, Erasmus University, DPU-UCL and IPE-Tripleline,…
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What impact do land markets have on spatial justice?
The IHS is conducting research on urban land markets in Somaliland and Uganda under the East Africa Research Fund (EARF)
Complex Land Markets in East Africa
Land markets have an important role in the urbanization process, as they determine access to urban space and uncontrolled land markets often support fast and…
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Impact Study of Covid-19 on the city of Rotterdam
Ghana Urban Management Pilot Programme


The Empire State Building is the centerpiece of a new real estate investment trust.
Yet another bidder is trying to upend the $5 billion real estate investment trust that has the Empire State Building as its crown jewel.
Malkin Holdings, the company that controls the 102-story landmark tower and 18 other buildings and wants to go public by the end of the year, disclosed late last week in a financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had received a $710 million offer for 60 E. 42nd St.
The building, located across from Grand Central Terminal, is 1.3 million square feet and 55 stories tall, making it the second largest building after the Empire State Building in the planned investment trust.
Malkin Holdings did not disclose the identity of the bidder. The offer follows several bids worth more than $2 billion that have been made on the Empire State Building by a collection of New York City landlords, including Joseph Sitt and Ruby Schron.
The offers have raised questions about whether the private or the public market is the best path for cashing in on the value of the real estate portfolio. Stephen Meister, an attorney who represents dissenting shareholders who want the Empire State Building to remain private, has insisted that REIT shares have been hit by rising interest rates, diminishing the value of their stock, and that a private sale of the assets would yield higher values. Mr. Meister's son, Jason Meister, is the broker representing the other offers, from Messrs. Sitt and Schron.
Those who favor a public offering say it could net $3 billion or more for the Empire State Building and that a REIT would replace the current sprawling ownership of the properties with a more efficient structure.


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Apple told Congress it has spent 'billions of dollars' on Apple Maps
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Apple has invested "billions of dollars" in Apple Maps since the app was introduced in 2012, the tech giant disclosed this week.
Apple Maps has been the target of harsh criticism from users since its release, but Apple has continued to add features that make it a stronger competitor to Google Maps.
The company made the disclosure in response to questions from the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating Apple for possible anticompetitive practices.
Since Apple created its own mapping app in 2012, it has been playing catch-up to Google Maps, which had a seven-year head start.
Apple has invested heavily in that competition, spending "billions of dollars" on Apple Maps since 2012, the company disclosed this week.
The disclosure came in response to a House Judiciary Committee probe into whether Apple has engaged in anticompetitive practices that favor its own apps over third-party apps on the App Store. Lawmakers sent Apple questions in September, and Apple's vice president of corporate law, Kyle Andeer, responded this week.
Apple is notoriously secretive about how it spends money. When asked how much Apple has invested in Apple Maps, Andeer declined to provide a specific figure, but said the number is in the billions.
"Apple has invested billions of dollars in Apple Maps," Andeer wrote.
Andeer also declined to answer lawmakers' questions about what percentage of iOS users have downloaded Google Maps, or how Apple Maps usage compares to Google Maps usage, stating that Apple "does not have usage data for any third-party apps."
However, Andeer said Google Maps and Waze, which is owned by Google, have been downloaded by iOS users "hundreds of millions of times over the last five years."
An Apple spokesperson did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
You can read Apple's full response to lawmakers' questions here.
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Q: How brittle are fiber cables? I need to move some fiber patch cables. As they are "special" compared to cat5, I am hesitant to be anything but very careful when moving them.
How durable are fiber patch cable? Can I treat it like cat5, or do you have to be more careful?

A: Pretty much don't bend them past 90 degrees under load, pinch them, step on them, or crush them.  Fiber has a minimum bending radius and varies between fiber manufactures (check out their documentation on the specific fiber).  Fiber has a lower tolerance to pulling tension so you should generally pull it by hand, steadily, and not jerky.  For the final install keep the tensile load low.   While they are not as tolerant to abuse as a cat5 cable, they are actually fairly resistant to abuse.

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The latest date for Christmas Orders for delivery in Ireland is 12 noon, Thursday 19th December 2013 and they will be dispatched on that day. For Worldwide deliveries all orders must be placed before 12noon, Tuesday 17th December 2012 and will be dispatched Wednesday 18th December 2013. No orders placed after this time and date will be dispatched until after Monday January 6th 2014.
The Company cannot accept responsibility for the late delivery of Gift Boxes where orders are placed after the Last order dates noted above. The Company cannot accept responsibility for the non-delivery or late delivery of Hampers/Gifts, if the recipient address and telephone details are insufficient or incorrect.
Please note that for photographic purposes some props have been used & these are not included in the particular gift box. Where stocks may run short an item in a Gift Box may be substituted for another of equal or greater value.
2.1 Our display of products on the Website is an invitation and not an offer to sell those goods to you.
2.2 An offer is made by you when you place the order for products. For information on how to place an order, see [Frequently Asked Questions], Orders section. Also, as you go through the order process there are instructions shown.
2.3 Note that no contract for the sale and purchase of products comes into effect unless and until we accept your offer (see point 2.6 below).
2.4 We take payment from your card when we process your order and have checked your card details. Goods are subject to availability. If we are unable to supply the products, we will inform you of this as soon as possible. A full refund will be given if you have already paid for the products. If, for any other reason beyond our reasonable control, we are unable to supply a particular product, we will not be liable to you except to ensure that you are not charged for that product.
2.6 Unless we have notified you that we do not accept your order or you have cancelled it, order acceptance and the creation of the contract between you and us will take place at the point the products you have ordered are despatched from our warehouse or from our suppliers to be delivered to the address you have given us. Creation of the contract does not take place until that stage, even though we may have debited your card (see 2.4 above) or we have sent acknowledging e-mails (see 2.5 above).
Very occasionally an error may occur resulting in the goods described on our website not being the goods actually available for sale. If this occurs your order will not be or have been accepted. We may ask you whether you wish to purchase other goods we may have available or the goods which may have been dispatched to you in error. If so your order will be amended. Otherwise, we will treat any order as cancelled and any incorrect goods despatched will be collected for full refund.
3.1 Payment may be made by any one of the methods indicated on the Website, we are unable to process orders with more than one method of payment.
Your credit or debit card provider or bank will determine the exchange rate and may add an additional processing or administration charge which the cardholder will be liable to pay. We are able to accept the credit cards and payment methods as listed on our Website although we reserve the right to vary these from time to time without notice. Using your credit or debit card when you shop online with GFI is safe and protected. Our secure server encrypts your credit card number details along with your personal information so they are then securely transmitted over the Internet.
3.2 You will be charged the current price for the products as shown on the Website at the date you place your order. All prices are displayed on the Website inclusive of VAT. We reserve the right to amend prices if there is a change in the rate of VAT (where applicable).
3.3 A delivery charge will be applied at checkout depending on the delivery address you specify and the weight and dimensions of the products selected. Please view our Delivery Charges.
3.4 We do our best to make sure that prices are correctly shown but very occasionally an error may occur. If this should happen, we will correct the price and ask you to confirm whether you still wish to purchase the products at the correct price. You may choose between (i) a refund, (ii) the option to change your order, and (iii) the confirmation of your order at the correct price. If we are unable to contact you, we will treat the order as cancelled. We will not accept an order if there is a pricing error.
4.1 We deliver to any address in the Republic of Ireland and in those countries listed on the Website. Please view our delivery information page for further details.
4.2 Orders generally require a signature to acknowledge delivery. The signature of the person accepting delivery at the delivery address will be proof that delivery has been received by you or the person to whom the order is addressed. If no one is available to accept the delivery you will receive a card to advise that a delivery has been attempted. We reserve the right to charge you for storage, re-delivery or both.
5.1 Certain products may subject to age restrictions as indicated on the product page. By placing your order for any of these products, you confirm that you (or where relevant, the person to whom you have directed that the products should be delivered) have reached the required age. Your entire order will be cancelled if we are unable able to verify your (or the intended recipient's) age using the details you have submitted. Alcohol can only be purchased by and for individuals aged 18 or over and liqueur chocolates can only be purchased by or for individuals aged 16 or over.
5.3 We reserve the right to withdraw any product from sale at our sole discretion.
5.4 The reproduction of colours is as accurate as the photographic and production process will allow. We will not have any liability to you for any minor variations in the style or presentation of the products.
6.2 Where products have been delivered to you, and you have a right under the European Communities (Protection of Consumers in Respect of Contracts Made by Means of Distance Communication) Regulations 2001, you may cancel them within 7 working days, starting from the day after the products were received by you. If you cancel your order (see the procedures below), any delivery charges will be refunded, however, if only part of your order is cancelled, the delivery charge will not be refunded.
6.3.1 You can either email shop@goodfoodireland.ie or telephone our Customer Services Team on + 353 53 9158693. If you have contacted us to cancel before delivery of your goods, though your order will be cancelled, we may not be able to interrupt delivery (except possibly if cancellation takes place within 6 hours after placing your order). Please refuse any delivery of cancelled goods or return them to us as soon as possible (and in any event no later than 30 days from receipt). In the meantime you must take reasonable care of them.
6.3.2 You will be responsible for the direct cost of returning the cancelled goods.
Note that this cancellation policy only applies where you have a right under the European Communities (Protection of Consumers in Respect of Contracts Made by Means of Distance Communication) Regulations 2001, and not otherwise.
When your products are delivered, please check that the order is complete and not damaged. In the event that your order is visibly damaged, do not accept the order and enter on the order confirmation email or delivery note "Damaged" along with a brief description of how or where the item is damaged.
If you have accepted the item(s) and subsequently discover that they are damaged or defective, you are entitled to a refund or replacement. Where a replacement is not possible e.g. because the product is no longer available or stocked by GFI, then a refund will be offered. You will be entitled to a refund of the purchase price, including a refund of your delivery charges and including the cost of you returning the product to GFI as set out below.
You must contact GFI (by email or by telephone) as soon as possible, preferably the same day as receipt, and provide evidence to GFI of the damage or defect (such as by sending a photograph of the damaged or defective product and clearly describing the problem).
Please note that for our delivery companies to accept liability for damage caused in transit we must inform them of any damage within 24 hours of delivery. Therefore, you should inform us as soon as possible following delivery of the item(s). Any claims made after this time but within 5 days will be subject to our discretion and thereafter any such claims may not be entertained. Please retain all original packaging.
If we request you to return the damaged or defective goods to us, you must do so promptly, and the postal cost of return of the goods will be borne by GFI.
GFI is not liable for increased shipping costs, loses or delays of items due to Acts of God.
The Company is not liable for increased shipping costs, loses or delays items due to third party Union actions where The Company are not directly involved in the related negotiations for the dispute.
Please note Gift boxes containing chilled goods are specially insulated boxes for such products. Please open and refrigerate the chilled products as soon as possible after delivery (where possible), even if this is for an interim period prior to further transportation. (i.e. Whilst in your office or facility). Failing this please store the Gift boxes in a cool dark or cold location.
The minimum order for customised Gift Box is Thirty Five (35). Good Food Ireland will only process a customised gift box by telephone 00353 (53) 9158693 or email shop@goodfoodireland.ie (Monday-Friday 09.00 - 17.00 GMT excluding Irish Bank Holidays). Please note all the limitations noted further in these terms & conditions apply.
If you wish to send your Gift Box with a personal message Good Food Ireland will be happy to provide a personalised message on Good Food Ireland letterhead paper. The text for such message should be included with your order details and emailed to shop@goodfoodireland.ie.
13.1 Our liability to you in connection with any order will not exceed the total price charged for the products.
13.2 We will not in any way be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss or damage or any loss of profits or lost opportunity, howsoever such loss or damage arises. We will only be responsible for direct loss and damage that you suffer as a result of our breach of these Terms of Sale to the extent that they are a foreseeable consequence to both of us at the time you make the relevant order. Our products are for personal use only: where you use them in the course of a business, we exclude (to the fullest extent permitted by law) any warranties and conditions relating to fitness for a particular purpose and our liability shall not in any event include business losses such as lost profits or business interruption.
13.3 Nothing in clause 7.1 or 7.2 above shall limit or affect our liability resulting from any products sold being unsafe or unfit for human consumption or if something we do negligently causes death or personal injury.
13.4 You may not transfer any of your rights under these GFI Terms of Sale to any other person. We may transfer our rights under these GFI Terms of Sale and sub-contract our obligations (for example the processing of payment, order fulfilment and the delivery of products) to another person or business where we reasonably believe your rights will not be adversely affected.
13.5 If you breach these GFI Terms of Sale and we choose to ignore this, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies at a later date or in any other situation where you breach these GFI Terms of Sale.
13.5 We shall not be responsible for any failure to deliver or for any other breach of these GFI Terms of Sale caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
13.6 All matters concerning or arising from the use or our Website and the ordering of any products shall be conducted in English.
13.7 These GFI Terms of Sale shall be construed and governed according to the laws of Ireland and the Irish courts shall have jurisdiction in all disputes arising from your dealings with GFI.


EXCLUSIVE: A change in the business model at Sony Pictures TV has put a number of top non-writing executive producers in play.
In trimming significantly its pod portfolio, Sony TV is now focusing on deals with high-level writing talent. Two examples of the studio's new strategy are the recent overall deals it signed with Smallville creators Miles Millar and Alfred Gough and with Ron Moore, creator of the SyFy series Battlestar Galactica.
As for Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly and Apostle's Denis Leary and Jim Sepico, I hear all are close to landing new studio deals and might end up on the same lot again.
Tantamount had been at Sony since its launch 3.5 years ago. Timberman and Beverly had been at the studio for 5 years, while Apostle had been there for more than 6 years, since the shingle started co-producing with Sony the FX drama Rescue Me, which is gearing up for the premiere of its penultimate sixth season. Timberman and Beverly also has an outstanding FX series at Sony – new drama Justified, which was recently renewed for a second season. Tantamount produced a number of pilots while at Sony as well as two series, Fox's Brothers and Sit Down, Shut Up. Their new comedy series at Fox, Running Wilde, is being produced through Lionsgate TV after Sony pulled out at the pilot order stage. Tantamount also has the ABC pilot Wright vs. Wrong set up at Sony. The project starring Debra Messing is getting reworked and reshot as a pilot this summer.


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Phobos Grunt Mars Probe killed by a software glitch…maybe
February 12, 2012 - Mars, Space, Uncategorized - Tagged: mars, phobos, phobos grunt, russia, satellite	- 1 comment
Phobos Grunt Mars Satellite
The ambitious Russian Mars probe which was supposed to place a lander on Phobos was doomed by a software glitch say Russian officials. "a programming error which led to a simultaneous reboot of two working channels of an onboard computer," according to RIA Novosti. With both of the main spacecraft computers down the doomed probe basically lost it's mind. Even with that after the reboot the probe's design still should have allow communication to be re-established. All satellites are normally designed to survive a computer reboot and will come back in a safe mode waiting for commands from the ground. This admission by Russian officials confirms and editoral published here on KnowledgeOrb which said the root cause of the failure was not the the hardware or software but the state of the Russian space program itself.
Shortly after the November launch of Phobos Grunt it was supposed to fire its thrusters and start it's trip to mars. This never happened, the probe lost contact with the ground and it now appears that due to the spacecraft computer reboot it went into a sun point safe mode…maybe. This is what is supposed to happen and should have been followed by re-establishment of communications with the ground. Ground tracking indicated that the probe actually raised it's orbit after launch which until now went unexplained. It now appears that the satellite fired it's thrusters about ten times as it was supposed to in order to settle the on board fuel and prepare for the main firing which would insert it on a trajectory to Mars. The change in the orbit of the probe was detected by U.S. tracking satellites.
Vladimir Popovkin, head of Roscosmos, told Russian reporters radiation damage could have caused the unexpected computer crash. The probe never made it out of low Earth orbit and was still protected by the Earths magnetic field putting this in doubt. In addition a radiation hit would most likely not have effected both computers.
Former Planetary Society executive director Louis Friedman said "Cheap parts, design shortcomings, and lack of pre-flight testing ensured that the spacecraft would never fulfill its goals," in a posting on the Planetary Society website. The official failure report lists the use of computer components not qualified for spaceflight as the root cause for the failure. Hard to believe if true when you consider the probe was supposed to go to Mars which requires years exposed to the harsh radiation environment of space outside the protection of Earths magnet field.
Phobos Grunt was a complex challenging mission for any space agency to undertake. Landing a probe on the moon Phobos and returning samples safely to Earth was ambitious to say the least. If the report is correct about the failure the probe never had a chance. Even of the computers survived there were probably other serious design failures which would have caused the mission to fail. Hopefully Russia will try again, but this time learn from this failure and complete the mission.
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Q: Why my error in subscirbe(()=>{},err=>{here}) is different from the error in browser console This is loadSize() function and it calls a getTotalNumberCampaigns() function in my campaignsService class.
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I start up the backend api everything works fine, now I stop the api and refresh my page. It will fire the console.log(err.status); console.log(err); since it's connection failed. but I actually got 200 status while in my browser console it says it is a 502 error.
anyone tell me why?

A: In fact, in the case of a connection failure, the response object you receive in your error callback is an error one since the value of its type attribute is 3 (ERROR). What is a bit strange is that it seems that the preflighted request is executed and received a response. Could you give us its details from the Network tab in dev tools (by clicking on "OPTIONS http://localhost:...")?
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The benches come in 4 different lengths (86.6 in, 71 in, 47 in and the 20 in stool), in order to cater for all 3 models of the You and Me table. What's more, they come with cushions and additional upholstered covers, with options for indoor or outdoor use, ensuring optimum comfort.


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Dr Serge Luryi received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Toronto in 1978. Between 1980 and 1994 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. During this period he had served as a Group Supervisor in Advanced VLSI Development Laboratory and several semiconductor device research departments, dealing with VLSI, Quantum Phenomena and Optoelectronics.
In 1994 Dr Luryi joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he is a Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since 1998 Dr Luryi has been also the Founding Director of the NY State Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Systems.
Dr Luryi has published over 250 papers and has been awarded 53 US patents in the areas of high-speed electronic and photonic devices, material science, sensor systems and electronic packaging.
In 1989 Dr. Luryi was elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in the field of heterojunction devices, in 1993 he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for theory of electron transport in low-dimensional systems and invention of novel electron devices and in 2008 he was elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America for outstanding and pioneering contributions to semiconductor optoelectronics, especially to the physics and photonic applications of low-dimensional semiconductor structures. In 1990 Bell Laboratories recognized him with the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award. In 2003 the SUNY Board of Trustees conferred on him the rank of Distinguished Professor. In 2006 Dr Luryi received the IEEE Long Island Section's Papoulis Award for Excellence in Engineering and Technology Education with the citation: "For pioneering contributions to include entrepreneurial skills in engineering education on Long Island"
During 1986-1990 Dr Luryi served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, first as an Associate Editor and then the Editor of these Transactions. Dr Luryi is the Founding Director of the triennial advanced research workshop on Future Trends in Microelectronics. There have been seven FTM meetings held since 1995 (all organized and chaired by Dr Luryi), of which the last (FTM-7) is held in the summer of 2012 on the island of Corsica, France.


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QPR's Luke Freeman lifts the lid on his Bristol City exit, saying it was 'out of my hands'
Freeman confirmed he's happy at Loftus Road but admitted things could have been a lot different
Phil Spencer
Luke Freeman has lifted the lid on his exit from Bristol City, saying it was out of his hands.
The former Arsenal trainee had just six months remaining on his contract at Ashton Gate when QPR swooped to secure his signature, and despite confirming that he's happy at Loftus Road, he admitted if he'd had his way at the time he'd probably still be with the Robins now.
Luke Freeman (Image: GetWestLondon)
When asked about his departure, Freeman said: "If I'm honest with you it was out of my hands. The club didn't offer me anything and I was coming to the end of my contract and I needed to sign somewhere.
"I was waiting over eight months for a contract and was hopeful they would offer me one, but they didn't.
Transfer talk: Fulham planning audacious bid for QPR's Luke Freeman as option to replace West Brom and West Ham target Tom Cairney
"When they did, it was nowhere near what anyone else was on, so really it was out of my hands.
"I probably wouldn't have left if I'd been offered the contract. It was one of them where I had to leave because there was nothing on the table for me."
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But Freeman, who has been one of the standout performers for Rangers this season, insists he is happy at Loftus Road.
He added: "If I had it my way I'd have probably still been there, but that's football. Things move on, I'm very happy at QPR playing regular football and working hard, so that's all I can do."
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Ylläs is located in Kolari, West Lapland. Its slogan says "Ylläs is number 1" and many visitors return feeling that it really is. The reasons are obvious: Ylläs has a larger network of trails than any other Finnish cross-country skiing resort. A total of 320 km of mechanically prepared trails are available, 38 km of these are illuminated. A wide variety of cafés, sites for campfires and resting along the way make cross-country skiing in Ylläs an experience.
The Ylläs area consists of seven fells and two original Lappish villages. At 718 m, Ylläs fell itself is one of the highest fells in Finnish Lapland. The village of Äkäslompolo is located on the northern side of the fell and the village of Ylläsjärvi on the southern side. Ylläs has the longest downhill runs in Finland with 37 slopes and 19 lifts. In year 2002 it was nominated the best ski resort in Finland. For snowboarders, Ylläs is a dream come true with half pipes, a Snowboard Park and a Snowboard Street but also popular among telemark skiers and off-piste skiers, with several fells of untouched snow. It has grown into one of the biggest winter holiday resorts without losing any of its typical Lapland charm. In the wide spaces of the clean snow-covered fell nature you can enjoy the peace and quiet. There's fascinating adventures with or without professional guides. Try husky, reindeer, Icelandic pony or snowmobile safaris, snowshoe hiking and kick-sledging. Indoor sports vary from climbing walls to gyms and swimming. A snowmobile track leading to the top of Ylläs fell and the Ylläskammi restaurant 718 m up, is a nice break for visitors. Other resorts such as Levi, Muonio, Pallas and Hetta are within easy reach of Ylläs, thus giving a trail network of nearly 1 000 km of cross-country skiing.
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Pre-Blossom, appeared on a proposed Facts of Life spinoff about Blair Warner (Lisa Whelchel) heading up a co-ed Eastland. Costars included Seth Green (1988).
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Can Mlife Gold Member Use The Mandalay Bay Pool For Free?
Discussion in 'Misc. Vegas Chat' started by emmahezza, Jan 16, 2019.
It says access to pool is $100 for non hotel guests! Staying at bellagio in May but would like to use the Mandalay pool, is this free with Mlife Gold?
I'm not seeing any provision for free pool access on the MLife benefits chart at any level. And where did you get that $100 figure from? MB's website says adult non-guests are $20 M-Th.
No. If you're not staying there, you have to pay to get in. Tier level doesn't matter.
I see. That's one of their "MLife Moments". Normally these are special experiences like choosing a song at the Bellagio fountains, or dinner with a celebrity chef-- stuff like that. Why they offer one for mere pool access (and why it's so expensive) is beyond me, but it doesn't seem to be subject to the same restrictions that their normal paid pool admission does. If you go to the pool section of Mandalay Bay's website, it's listed much cheaper but explicitly subject to blackout date and capacity restrictions.
If you are going on a weekend you'll have to buy reserved seating to get in. Prices vary. Check the rentals page below for prices on your specific dates.
Non-Hotel guests are welcome to The Beach with paid admission. Valid Monday – Thursday.
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Mmm, I'd ask someone. The motto of this board (in my opinion), is the worst thing you can hear is "no." It's not like they lose anything.


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Babies At The Bar Part 1: Violations of Law by NYSUT and NYC DOE Attorneys
Michael Bloomberg and Michael Cardozo
From Betsy Combier:
First, I am not an attorney, just a writer/journalist. I, like most people, have opinions. Below are a few of them.
The New York City Department of Education as set up by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his sidekick New York City Law Department Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo, (see below for a 2009 rebuke from the NY Appellate Court Judges) are breaking the law. Specifically, New York State Education Law Section 3020-a. Lawyers who work for The Gotcha Squad and prosecute tenured teachers brought up on bogus charges of misconduct and/or incompetency know this, so do NYSUT Attorneys, and attack anyone who notices their lawless procedures in bringing "Just Cause for Termination" to all cases of 3020-a arbitration.
Both NYSUT and the DOE Attorneys are contracted to "prosecute" teachers under the presumption that all individuals brought to 3020-a are guilty of the charges. Other presumptions that effect all cases are: the case must look at ONLY the specifications, and nothing else (i.e., the principal is breaking the law with special needs children, stole money, has skeletons in his/her closet, the person making the charge is not in the school, didnt see what happened, wasnt there...). Obviously, anyone who says that ALL facts must be brought in to the hearing to give motive and prove innocence is someone who must be tarred and feathered. That's me and the lawyers I work with, but we do not care about this fluff and stuff, and all of that leads to a stronger case in court for any kind of appeal against the arbitrator.
For instance, on April 19, 2013, I walked by a hearing room with the door open, at 49-51 Chambers Street, and I heard NYSUT Attorney Maria Elena Gonzalez Lichten telling Arbitrator Stephen O'Beirne how "she" put my email on her blog, and...". You dont think that the Attorneys speak to arbitrators only about the cases they are doing before them, do you? Anyway, I am posting the stuff I have already placed on this blog about Maria Elena Gonzolez Lichten, wife of Stuart Lichten, to update Mr. O'Beirne on what I have written, see here, here, and here. Mr. O'Beirne is an excellent Arbitrator, in my opinion, and can see through this infantile approach to squashing opposition to the Plan ("terminate any DOE employee who has tenure and is brought to 3020-a") . By the way, Mrs. Lichten, when you said in your email that I lied, I am still waiting to hear about what, so that I may address whatever it is that I lied about? My email address is betsy.combier@gmail.com, as you know.
Now to the charging process and determination of probable cause. If you are handed your specifications with a cover letter that says "...Principal __________ has found probable cause on the charges preferred against you" tell your attorney to ask, on the record and to the arbitrator, how the principal can find probable cause against you, considering the fact that Education Law 3020-a states that the school board must go into Executive Session and vote on whether there is probable cause, bring in Appendix A, usually served with the specifications - if you dont get this document, print out Education Law 3020-a and bring in those pages. (New York State Education Law 3020-a(2)(a)). New York City is part of New York State, and as far as I know, no agreement which conflicts with the law is valid.
The April 15, 2010 so-called 'agreement' signed by Joel Klein and Mike Mulgrew cannot be legally binding because Joel Klein signed the 'agreement' as chancellor, and he was never legally chancellor because he never had a contract, required by Education Law Section 2590-h. I wrote the "Who Are You Kidding Award Goes To Joel Klein" in 2007, but Mike Bloomberg never gave out any contracts to Klein, Black or Walcott. On January 7, 2013, Arbitrator Roy Watanabe asked DOE Attorney Lisa McFadden if Walcott had a contract. She said yes, and brought into the 3020-a hearing the waiver given to Walcott by New York State Commissioner David Steiner, giving Walcott permission to be chancellor:
Waiver from Steiner To Dennis Walcott
I am not a lawyer, but I believe that as Mr. Walcott did not sign this document, there is no term of office, and for many other reasons, this is not a contract, howevermuch the Gotcha Squad says it is. Compare with the contracts of Harold Levy and Rudy Crew in my 2007 article "The Who Are You Kidding Award Goes To Joel Klein"
I noticed what they were doing eight years ago. For 5 years I remained a silent observer, writing notes on everyone from a corner by the wall as a member of the public. Then someone at the DOE made up that I taped during a hearing, and this was completely false, but I became the omen of doom when the Attorneys realized that I knew what the fraud was. NYSUT Attorney Shawn T. Kelly, for example, on May 25, 2011 while everyone at 49-51 Chambers Street was on the sidewalk due to a firedrill, screamed "Dont talk with Betsy Combier, you will be terminated..." and other nonsense.
Then there are the screamers and naysayers from the DOE, Ian Nikol, Nancy Ryan, Dennis Da Costa, and Mallory Sullivan, all Department Attorneys who would rather scream at me and try to get me run over by a bus than address the fact that they are harming innocent people without just or probable cause.
EDUCATION LAW §3020-A MANDATES A VOTE ON SPECIFICITY BY A SCHOOL BOARD
Education Law requires a vote by the school board precede a determination of "probable cause" upon which to bring charges against teachers removed from their schools. (Education Law §3020-a, Article 61) This provides all pedagogues protection from vindictive Principals who may want to remove senior teachers from their positions because they make salaries that could pay for two teachers instead of one.
NYS Education Law §2590-g does not address the issue of review and scrutiny of whether there is probable cause to proceed with the prosecution of disciplinary charges against tenured educational personnel. The requirements of NYS Education Law §3020-a and §3020-a (2)(a) , under which tenured personnel may be disciplined for "Just Cause", are absolute and require that before charges can be brought against a tenured educator, the School Board must:
a. Determine that there is "probable cause" for the proceeding with charges by a majority vote by the Board.
b. Make this determination within 5 days of the charges being filed with the Board.
c. Ensure that the decision to proceed with the charges is not frivolous, arbitrary, capricious or discriminatory.
Without a school board to perform these functions – and, the New York City Panel For Educational Policy ("PEP") never has taken on this function – there is no oversight by anyone other than the tenured teacher's Principal to initiate the disciplinary process and Local Superintendent to endorse the Principal's request to prefer file charges against any educator a Principal chooses to remove from the school the Principal administers.
The lack of independent review and lack of oversight by anyone other than the tenured teacher's Principal to initiate discipline is not consistent with Education Law §3020-a. This constitutes a de facto denial of equal protection of the §3020-a law, as all arbitrators who sit on the panel to hear 3020-a charges are not permitted by law, collective bargaining agreement, or any other contractual arrangement to make a decision on charges unless they have been voted on by the New York City Board of Education before a tenured teacher is given these charges, pursuant to Education Law §§ 2590-j, 3020, and 3020-a.
The relevant parts are as follows:
"Filing of charges. All charges against a person enjoying the benefits of tenure as provided in subdivision three of section one thousand one hundred two, and sections two thousand five hundred nine, two thousand five hundred seventy-three, twenty-five hundred ninety-j, three thousand twelve and three thousand fourteen of this chapter shall be in writing and filed with the clerk or secretary of the school district or employing board during the period between the actual opening and closing of the school year for which the employed is normally required."
Section 3020a(2)(a) of The NY Education Law states:
"Disposition of charges. Upon receipt of the charges, the clerk or secretary of the school district or employing board shall immediately notify said board thereof. Within five days after receipt of charges, the employing board, in executive session, shall determine, by a vote of a majority of all the members of such board, whether probable cause exists to bring a disciplinary proceeding against an employee pursuant to this section. If such determination is affirmative, a written statement specifying the charges in detail, the maximum penalty which will be imposed by the board if the employee does not request a hearing or that will be sought by the board if the employee is found guilty of the charges after a hearing and outlining the employee's rights under this section, shall be immediately forwarded to the accused employee by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested or by personal delivery to the employee."
Furthermore, Section 2590(j)(7)(b) of The NY Education Law specifically states:
"Charges may be initiated by the community superintendent against any such employee." There is no mention of a principal finding probable cause. Certainly it is unreasonable to believe that due process exists when a principal charges a teacher without any accountability to anyone for that decision, and then finds probable cause for charging the teacher. Therefore the Just Cause Standard is not reached, and no hearing can proceed.
Before a tenured teacher can be brought up on disciplinary charges, the Education Law lays out a number of procedural hurdles that a Board of Education must comply with. These procedural hurdles are in place to protect the rights of the tenured teacher to fair process, and constitute jurisdictional pre-requisites to a §3020-a disciplinary hearing. Chief among these procedural hurdles is the requirement that probable cause to prefer charges must be voted on by the Board of Education (see, e.g., Education Law §3020-a(2)(a)).
Compliance with this provision is a jurisdictional condition precedent to a §3020-a disciplinary hearing. Without it, the hearing cannot go forward. Prohibition is the appropriate procedural remedy for the assertion of a claim where prohibition is available "to prevent a body or officer from proceeding or threatening to proceed without or in excess of its jurisdiction." See: Matter of Schumer v Holtzman, 60 N.Y. 2d 46, 51; Garzilli v Mills, 250 A.D.2d 131 (3d Dep't 1998); Community School Board No. 29, SED No. 3562 (Howard Edelman, a member of the UFT-DOE arbitration panel in New York City -Dec. 14, 1998).
In New York City, §3020-a teacher disciplinary proceedings have become penal in nature and not arbitral in the same manner labor grievances are resolved. Matter of Clayton v Bd. of Educ., 49 A.D.2d 343 (3rd Dept 1975). Submission to these disciplinary hearings are compulsory and the jurisdiction of the hearing officer is derived from statute. Teachers are charged, similar to an indictment in the criminal world, upon determination of probable cause.
When I started examining the procedures used by the newly instituted Department of Education, I saw that my knowledge of education law and arbitration, which I got by reading my own books (I am not an attorney) did not give me any clue as to the random and arbitrary nature of the 3020-a hearings I was asked to attend in NYC. So, I studied the lawyers and the arbitrators to try to find out how the law could be ignored. Then the Gotcha Squad realized that I was on to something, and took it upon themselves to attack me.
So now I can write about the lawyers who decided to attack, and will provide my website with the names of the Attorneys who threw aside the lives, careers, health benefits and tenured positions of teachers in order to make a profit.
NY Appellate Bench Rips Cardozo in Law Journal Letter
In a stunning rebuke to NYC's top lawyer, Michael Cardozo, 18 of the 20 justices that sit in the Appellate Division, First Department have taken him to the woodshed with a letter in the New York Law Journal coming out tomorrow (12/17/09). The response comes due to Cardozo's attack on the state's judiciary last week. Cardozo is now starting his third term as the city's Corporation Counsel.
The appellate court judges are responding to Cardozo's December 7th column on improving efficiency in the courts, a subject I wrote about a few days ago when both bench and bar came down on him hard in NYC's Top Lawyer Gets Reamed For Inefficiency (By Both Bench and Bar).
But now it is not simply one panel of judges ripping the city for its own inefficiency, or lawyers writing letters to the paper. Now the vast majority of the appellate bench that hears NYC cases has called Carozo's "imperious outpouring of advice" "insulting." They went on to write, led by Presiding Justice Luis Gonzalez (pictured), that:
"We feel compelled to respond to his misguided assertions, his misplaced blame and his attacks on the state trial judges…"
The First Department hears cases from the Manhattan and Bronx courts. And the Second Department, which sanctioned the city just last week in Byam v. City of New York for a decade of delay in providing discovery, handles Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island (as well as other downstate counties).
You could almost see the smoke pouring off the keyboards of the judges as they wrote of Cardozo regarding changes in the use of 60-day reports that judges make to track cases:
In large measure, his facile proposals amount to an echo of reforms that are under way or have already been adopted by our former and current chief judges… Every one of these items has already been implemented by the Office of Court Administration, which on a constant basis compiles and circulates large amounts of information regarding judges' job performance.
The idea that current reports are being inaccurate implied, to the court, that some dishonesty was going on. The letter stated:
The idea that complaints must be filed with the Judicial Conduct Commission in order to ensure accuracy in 60-day reporting requirements baselessly implies that there is actually a problem with inaccuracy, an implication for which Mr. Cardozo provides no support.
After defending the trial judges against Cardozo's charges, the appellate judges lowered the hammer on him, placing the blame for much delay and inefficiency squarely at his feet (just as this letter Helene Blank and Marc Dittenhoefer did the other day):
In fact, it is ironic that the Corporation Counsel blames the courts for a failure to deal appropriately with litigation delays, since it is the office of Corporation Counsel of the City of New York that plays a significant role in causing those undue delays. For one thing, there is always a backlog of ready city cases in the dedicated city parts, and, with each part being assigned only two city attorneys, neither plaintiffs' attorneys nor the trial judges have the means to ensure that ready cases can proceed immediately to trial; the city alone wields that authority. A vast amount of inefficiency impeding the resolution of litigation is also created by the city's oft-demonstrated cavalier attitude toward its discovery obligations. The city's almost routine failure to timely and fully cooperate with its discovery obligations, even in the face of repeated court orders, is regularly confronted by city part judges attempting to solve the city's intransigence (see e.g., Lewis v. City of New York, 17 Misc. 3d 559 [2007]).
What followed then was a litany of First Department cases in which the sanction of attorneys fees was imposed on the city as a result of its "inexcusably lax" responses to discovery orders.
And then a concession about city cases that all the personal injury attorneys in this town already knew, but had always been simply implied by the courts:
[A]s a rule, our courts give far more leeway to the city than we typically do to other defendants in civil actions.
Cardozo isn't having a very good holiday season. In fact, having so many judges angry at him, I'm thinking this will be his last holiday season in his office.
It's worth noting, however, that in an interview with the Law Journal that accompanied the letter (can't find link), Justice Gonzalez said the First Department's "track record of evenhandedness in our treatment of Mr. Cardozo's client, New York City," would continue despite the judges' criticism. He went on to say, "The bottom line is our judges are always mindful of our ethical responsibilities and our members have always dealt with Mr. Cardozo's client in a fair and even-handed manner and we will continue to do so."
The Corporation Counsel has 650 attorneys working for it, and handles a wide range of legal issues on behalf of the city. Background here on Cardozo as he prepared to start his third term.
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Reviews: The Vegetarian by Han Kang (2007, trans Deborah Smith); I am Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo (2016, trans Jamie Chang) – translated from Korean
June 15, 2020 by Elly McDonald 1 Comment
I had formed the impression from publicity I'd seen that The Vegetarian, by Han Kang, was a novel about patriarchy pushing back when one woman attempts to make a relatively mild assertion of will: woman goes vegetarian, male state goes mad.
I suppose the first section, at least, of this book, can be read that way. Woman does indeed go vegetarian. Male relatives do indeed get mad.
But there are other things going on here. British novelist Ian McEwan sums it up well, describing The Vegetarian as "a novel of sexuality and madness". Mostly madness, for me.
The narrative unfolds through three sections, from three perspectives: Yeong-hye's husband; her brother-in-law; and her sister. I found the final section, the sister's perspective, most compelling.
In keeping with a feminist reading, neither of the two men have any interest in Yeong-hye's personhood. She's an object, for both. The book's opening line is "Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way." The husband ("Mr Cheong") goes on to innumerate the many ways Yeong-hye seemed to him entirely ordinary, and why this very ordinariness qualified her to be his wife. (In short: inadequate man seeks woman he can disregard.) He only ever refers to her as "my wife".
Her brother-in-law, in contrast, sees Yeong-hye as distinct, even unique, and exotic. For him, she embodies sexuality. Vitality.
Both men are projecting like crazy. ("Crazy" being a technical term.)
In her marriage, Yeong-hye goes mad. Pointedly, her husband reports this in terms of her ceasing to dedicate her being to his service. He has no feelings of concern or compassion. Instead he feels revulsion.
Witnessing Yeong-hye's madness, her brother-in-law goes mad. He conflates his madness with "art". He feels he's come alive. The comedown is – how shall I say? – deflating.
In the final section, Yeong-hye is certifiably mad and confined to a secure psychiatric ward. Her sister is the only family remaining by her side, figuratively and in fact. Her sister meditates on the nature of madness, its origins, and concludes that only a fine string ties us to sanity. Any one of us could untie that string and be "absorbed" by our dark dreams.
When Yeong-hye is asked why she rejects meat, she can only say, in a perverse of echo of Martin Luther King, "I had a dream". As someone who watches Korean TV drama, I recognise this notion of "What is your dream?" as a catechism of aspiration. What do you want for your life? What is your ambition?
What Yeong-hye had (and has) is not a dream but a night terror. Her only apparent desire is to disappear into a forest, to join the plant world. This is her survival strategy, even if it kills her.
Yeong-hye's older sister recognises she too pursued a survival strategy. In her case, she adopted the persona of the sane one, the capable, conscientious older sister. She had cosmetic surgery (double eyelids), promoted a pleasing demeanour, and built a business selling cosmetics. None of that ensures her psychic survival.
The most troubling character, for me, is the older sister's young son. With the adults gone mad, he is abandoned. Who will protect his survival?
The Vegetarian begs comparison with Cho Nam-joo's controversial 2016 Korean novel, I am Kim Ji-young, Born 1982. Cho Nam-joo is a former TV scriptwriter who took a career break after having a child. She wrote her book fast, apparently in just two weeks, using elements of her own experiences. Footnote sociological research citations firmly anchor anecdote and individual composite in statistics and legislation.
The novel is presented as a case study – a psychiatric case study, as we come to realise. Stylistically it's a very straightforward, not to say clinical, read. By stepping us through Kim Ji-young's life history, Cho shows the ways a female in Korea is disadvantaged from birth relative to her male peers.
Inevitably, the book prompted a backlash of 'Whataboutism', intergenerational beefs and male resentments, as did the film adaptation.
I lent the novel to my mother, born 1934, knowing some of Kim Ji-young's workplace experiences mirrored hers. My mother read it, handed it back, commented wryly, "All women, all over the world."
Like Yeong-hye, Kim Ji-young (a common name, a kind of Jane Doe) goes mad. As at the novel's conclusion, her prognosis does not look good. The male psychiatrist who is purportedly writing her case study reflects privately on how her story relates to his own experience. He, like Ji-young's husband, is a caring and intelligent man. He believes his desire to help is sincere.
The sting in the tail? Even recognising the structural and systemic inequities that resulted in his patient's breakdown, as his attention moves elsewhere, the male authority figure disregards what he might have learned. Instead of being a change agent, he perpetuates the way things are.
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The story may be stale for some, but it's no less relevant. AdvertisingAge published an interesting article last week, revealing that rival magazine companies are discussing the creation of an ad network that would sell targeted ad space across many industry Web sites.
While considered very preliminary, the concept is that each participant could get better ad rates. Owning their own network, these publishers believe, thereby reduces the increasing number of independent ad networks that return pennies on the dollars.
According to the IBM Global Business Services study highlighted earlier, this is the kind of network that many advertising professionals expect in the next three to five years or less.
Will a collaborative magazine ad network work?
According to the article, a magazine publishers' network, if it could achieve the crucial scale required, could offer advertisers behavioral targeting on professionally produced, "well-lit" sites. However, depending on the structure and whether publishers would retain independent account executives, it could also skew sales toward favored publishers.
While it might seem like a prudent move for magazine publishers, they would have to take care not to model such a network after the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, which may have saved some newspapers in the short term, but resulted in near dual-paper monopolies that hindered start-ups.
Generally, most participating newspapers consolidated advertising sales and distribution. In recent years, the number of joint operating agreements has declined considerably. Personally, I wonder sometimes if the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 didn't set the stage for declining print circulations today.
Specifically, had newspapers not grown complacent with little fear of competition, would they have been faster to act in developing a modern distribution model that paid for itself? We may never know.


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